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▪ I. † cuˈbicular, n. Obs.
Also 5–7 -er, -air, -are.
[ad. OF. cubiculaire, ad. L. cubiculārius (a. and n.) cubiculary, f. cubiculum bedchamber; see -ar2.]
An attendant in a bedchamber; a groom of the bedchamber; a chamberlain. Chiefly Sc.
c1425Wyntoun Cron. vi. vi. 24 Hyr Cubiculare By hyr lay, and gat a Barne. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 82/2 The lord comanded hys cubyculyers that she [Judith] shold goo and come at her playsir. a1560Rolland Crt. Venus iv. 573 Sensualitie..Quhilk to Venus was richt cheif Cubiculair. a1639Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scot. v. (1677) 236 Monsieur Verac, Cubiculare to the French King. 1873Burton Hist. Scot. V. lx. 299 With the zealots of the church on one side and the ‘cubiculars’ of the court on the other.
▪ II. cubicular, a.|kjuːˈbɪkjʊlə(r)|
[ad. L. cubiculār-is, f. cubiculum cubicle.]
Of or belonging to a bedchamber.
1611Cotgr., Cubiculaire, cubicular, belonging to the bedchamber. c1645Howell Lett. I. vi. xxxii, For his privat cubicular devotions. Ibid. iv. xvi. (1892) 583 Being the inseparable Cubicular Companion. 1768Life & Advent. Sir B. Sapskull I. 127 Cubicular devotion. |